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Palo Alto, California, Us

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Montreal, Quebec, Ca

Senior engineer on Cloud Engineering Team. Designed and delivered managed cloud solutions for customer base. Managed enterprise VMware environment and design configurations across infrastructure stack. Implemented monitoring, performance analysis, and optimization. Developed automation for cloud operations. Mentored cloud operations team and produce documentation and standards for operational procedures. Provided escalation support for incident management.

Morrisville, Nc, Us

Key member of senior VMware virtualization team, engineering and deploying IaaS solutions for enterprise customers. Designed and engineered large scale solutions to meet performance, availability, and security requirements. Optimized performance of critical environments, including SAP HANA systems. Created automation procedures for operational efficiency. Contributed to knowledge through written documentation and training of operations teams. Engineered solution for geographically remote disaster recovery solution.

Mission Hills, Ca, Us

Consulting engineer with a focus on data center virtualization and storage. Involved in customer projects involving VMware virtualization, enterprise storage, FlexPod converged solutions, Cisco UCS, Nexus, routing and switching, and Citrix application virtualization. Designed and implemented enterprise solutions for customer base and provided engineering and architectural support for internal teams. Collaborated with engineering, deployment and sales teams to produce project plans and deliverables. Delivered technical presentations to customers. Wrote best practice and assessment documents for customer engagements.

Bethesda, Md, Us

Managed infrastructure and network operations at two data centers. Designed and implemented physical and virtual enterprise solutions and managed all infrastructure application projects. Administered VMware virtual infrastructure, backup and storage solutions, Windows 2003/2008 and Linux servers, Active Directory, Exchange 2010 and Citrix XenApp environments. Maintained all Dell blade and rack-mount servers, NetApp/EMC storage arrays, SAN switches and backup hardware. Worked with security and compliance teams to ensure adherence to HIPAA and PCI requirements. Implemented strategies to optimize operations using industry best practice frameworks such as ITIL and expanded disaster recovery and business continuity measures.Achievements:• Designed and built current colocation environment at remote data center and migrated all critical application systems to colocation.• Designed and built upgraded VMware virtual infrastructure and expanded infrastructure to 70% virtual.• Upgraded enterprise SAN for expanding virtual environment using consolidated storage solution.• Upgraded Exchange environment from 2003 to 2010 and configured high-availability solution.

Bethesda, Md, Us

Managed data center and infrastructure operations at corporate headquarters and disaster recovery site. Maintained all servers, storage, SAN network switches and backup hardware. Documented network topologies and maintained inventories of network and systems infrastructure. Administered VMware environment, backup solutions, Windows 2003 servers, Active Directory, Exchange 2003, Blackberry Enterprise Server, OCS 2007, IIS, and Citrix XenApp. Implemented Disaster Recovery procedures. Worked with security and compliance teams and helped implement required security measures.Achievements:• Designed and implemented organization’s initial VMware virtual environment and helped influence the adoption of and confidence in virtualization for critical business applications.• Implemented first SAN solutions for VMware environment using Fibre Channel and iSCSI arrays.• Helped implement unified communications technologies using OCS 2007 and Avaya Modular Messaging solutions.

Provided consulting service for major accounts supporting clients' service desk and network infrastructure. Worked as project lead, supervising four systems analysts and managing client’s data center environment. Assisted with expansion of data center 10x during this period. Supported end-user applications, administered Windows servers and backup solutions and maintained all server, storage and backup hardware.

Managed classroom technical operations for computer training environment. Supervised team of four network administrators while overseeing operations at three training centers (20 classrooms). Coordinated resource usage for all classrooms. Provided enterprise systems administration and end user support for office environment.